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It’s very important to Doctor Who that the TARDIS can travel back in time to a recognizable point in human history. After all, we don’t know what last week on Skaro or Mondas can have been like, or 20 years from now, for that matter, so to prove to your audience that all of history is there for the exploring, you need to intact with history as we understand it now. And that involves mixing with some very recognizable faces.

Let’s start with some writers. How about this fella, who was born exactly 200 years ago, next Tuesday:

Charles Dickens – The Unquiet Dead (Ninth Doctor, 2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIl9eZAzBRI

And who could forget…

Agatha Christie – The Unicorn and the Wasp (Tenth Doctor, 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_7iROatwas

And maybe the greatest of them all:

William Shakespeare – The Shakespeare Code (Tenth Doctor, 2007)

Followed by the biggest, most recognizable face of the 20th Century.

Adolf Hitler – Let’s Kill Hitler (Eleventh Doctor, 2011)

And his opponent…

Winston Churchill – The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, The Wedding of River Song (Eleventh Doctor, 2010/2011)